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Northern Burdock

Arctium nemorosum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 604, February 446, March 699, April 1,100, May 1,586, June 1,729, July 1,851, August 1,592, September 1,168, October 872, November 477, December 372.
United States12,557
Alaska12,497
Russia57
Ukraine42
Germany36
Italy22
New York19
Slovenia16
Austria15
Autonomous Republic of Crimea15

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genusburdocks · Arctium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Northern Burdock with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.